[Not a Bug] 'Depth of Forums' not working in 2.2.5

[IDN]

for some reason, even tho the forums have sub forums, it wont show up...

see here www.nerdnations.com under hardware, nothing, anyone know whats up?

heres my set up

Computer support
Subforum -- Hardware
Subforum2 -- Sound Cards

[mjames]

Make sure your forums in your Admin CP have the correct numbers next to them and more importantly, make sure that your forums are checked "yes" to show.

[Steve Machol]

Also you may need to adjust the 'Depth of Forums' setting in the Admin CP to 3.

[IDN]

oh, so thats what that does :)


i set it to 4, same problem... where do i make it say show? i think i had that set ok, i want to make sure


and if you mean by numbers i put the forum order numbers

[TheBear]

Originally posted by IDN
oh, so thats what that does :)


i set it to 4, same problem... where do i make it say show? i think i had that set ok, i want to make sure


and if you mean by numbers i put the forum order numbers

Hi,

I am also having the same problem on my forums. I created a main heading, then a sub heading that contains a couple of topics in the sub headings. But the topics won't show up at all. I did set the depth to 4.

This is a brand new, first time setup of v2.2.5 (just downloaded it from the site 2 days ago.

Dale

[Steve Machol]

Confirmed on my forums too. This looks like a bug. :(

[Mike Sullivan]

You need to create new templates to handle a depth greater than 2. See the forumhome/forumdisplay sections for demo versions. The templates need to be named <type>_forumbit_level<#>_<postoption> . <type> is either forumhome or forumdisplay, depending where you want the forum to show up; <#> is the level of the forum (going to be 3 or greater); <postoption> is either post or nopost, depending on how the forum's "Act as forum?" option is set.

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
You need to create new templates to handle a depth greater than 2.Mike, what's the chance of this template-creation becoming (semi?)-automated? It seems to me that if you had a generic base, it should be fairly easy to script the creation of the missing template(s) based on the # given in the admin CP. If not, I'd prefer it not to be as easily accessible as it is today, because that would only confuse people (as we've seen).

[IDN]

forumdisplay_forumbit_leve3_post
forumdisplay_forumbit_level3_nopost
forumhome_forumbit_level3_nopost
forumhome_forumbit_level3_post

i made these templates with the same content of level 2, whats up? theres still the problem and it aint showing up www.nerdnations.com

[Mike Sullivan]

IDN -- make sure both the depth of forums options are set to 3 (there's one for forum display and there's one for forum home IIRC). If that doesn't work, revert back to a vanilla code base. (BTW, whatever hack you added, added a ton of queries to the index)

[yogin]

i found i had the same problem not being able to show more than 2 in depth

after adding these 2 templates
forumhome_forumbit_level3_nopost
forumhome_forumbit_level3_post

and copying exactly what was in the level2 ones, it worked

i'm not sure what is the difference between forumhome and forumdisplay though :)

[Fusion]

bumpetibump

Originally posted by Fusion
Mike, what's the chance of this template-creation becoming (semi?)-automated? It seems to me that if you had a generic base, it should be fairly easy to script the creation of the missing template(s) based on the # given in the admin CP. If not, I'd prefer it not to be as easily accessible as it is today, because that would only confuse people (as we've seen).